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  • VICTORY: Astronomer Wins Six Figures in Retaliation Case After Opposing DEI

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  • What Happened to ‘Do No Harm’?

    May 11, 2026

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    May 4, 2026

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    April 30, 2026

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    April 30, 2026

  • What’s Feeding the ‘Graduate Unemployment Crisis’?

    What’s Feeding the ‘Graduate Unemployment Crisis’?

    A mix of economic, educational, and corporate failures is making it difficult for young Americans to enter the workforce.
    Jared Gould
    May 14, 2026

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  • WATCH: How China Stole America’s Secrets

    WATCH: How China Stole America’s Secrets

    Former Defense Intelligence Agency director David Shedd explains the CCP’s long campaign through universities, research labs, and industry.
    Lilla Nora Kiss
    May 15, 2026

    In this episode of Café Berlin, Ian Oxnevad and I are joined by David Shedd, former Acting Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, and co-author (with Andrew Badger) of The…


  • Mia’s University

    Mia’s University

    An experiment testing whether AI can build a virtual university.
    Joe Nalven
    May 14, 2026

    What do Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, Mark Zuckerberg, Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Branson, Steve Jobs, Paul Newman, Harry Truman, and F. Scott Fitzgerald all have in common? They were college…


  • VICTORY: Astronomer Wins Six Figures in Retaliation Case After Opposing DEI

    VICTORY: Astronomer Wins Six Figures in Retaliation Case After Opposing DEI

    ‘I hope this result will discourage retaliation against future whistleblowers.’
    Jim Condon
    May 13, 2026

    While working from home in November of 2022, I received a large but remarkably light FedEx box containing this letter from Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI) President Adam Cohen: The National…


  • The Danger of Danielle Allen’s Civics Project

    The Danger of Danielle Allen’s Civics Project

    Her ‘bipartisan’ civics project masks a framework that empowers the academic left’s most radical actors.
    David Randall
    May 12, 2026

    Harvard political theorist Danielle Allen, much profiled, is a curious figure. Author, political candidate, inspiring figure behind the deplorable Educating for American Democracy, Allen offers a vision of the best…


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Roundups

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  • “Princeton Introduces Proctoring, Changing Century-Old Honor Code” — Inside Higher Education, 5/15/26
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    May 15, 2026

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Artificial Intelligence →

  • Let Faculty Lead on AI
    May 1, 2026

    Let Faculty Lead on AI

    Colleges need flexible policies that teach students to use AI without sacrificing core intellectual skills.
  • What ChatGPT Is Doing to Student Writing
    April 7, 2026

    What ChatGPT Is Doing to Student Writing

    Today’s students can write a perfect sentence that says absolutely nothing.
  • Melania Trump Presents AI-Powered Educators at White House Summit
    April 2, 2026

    Melania Trump Presents AI-Powered Educators at White House Summit

    The vision of robot educators points less to innovation than to the erosion of the human foundations of learning.
  • The Loneliest Generation Turns to AI for Intimacy
    March 31, 2026

    The Loneliest Generation Turns to AI for Intimacy

    One in five high schoolers has begun using AI for emotional and romantic engagement.

Campus Culture →

  • The Return of the Religious Male
    April 30, 2026

    The Return of the Religious Male

    Campus hostility toward men is fueling a revival in their return to church.
  • Correcting the Course?
    April 24, 2026

    Correcting the Course?

    Yale’s internal report acknowledges rising costs, opaque admissions, and ideological bias as drivers of public distrust.
  • A Rally on Campus
    April 23, 2026

    A Rally on Campus

    Pickleball is serving up something good on campus—but let’s not get carried away.
  • Catholic Converts and the Limits of the Trend
    April 16, 2026

    Catholic Converts and the Limits of the Trend

    The rise in Catholic conversions reflects real intellectual appeal, but it remains a small phenomenon within a broader secularizing culture that calls for pluralistic religious education.

China →

  • WATCH: How China Stole America’s Secrets
    May 15, 2026

    WATCH: How China Stole America’s Secrets

    Former Defense Intelligence Agency director David Shedd explains the CCP’s long campaign through universities, research labs, and industry.
  • 13 Dead or Missing Tied to Sensitive Research
    April 30, 2026

    13 Dead or Missing Tied to Sensitive Research

    A conspiracy linking the deaths and disappearances is plausible, given the intensifying foreign espionage targeting U.S. research.
  • A Conviction and a Suspicious Death are the Latest in Beijing’s Campus Spy Game
    April 22, 2026

    A Conviction and a Suspicious Death are the Latest in Beijing’s Campus Spy Game

    Chinese state interests continue to intersect with an open—and often naïve—American university system.
  • America’s Universities Have Chosen Foreign Interests Over Their Own Country
    April 7, 2026

    America’s Universities Have Chosen Foreign Interests Over Their Own Country

    The National Association of Scholars’s new report lays out a concrete policy roadmap to restore higher education to the national interest.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion →

  • Arizona Honors Colleges Trade Plato for Politics
    May 8, 2026

    Arizona Honors Colleges Trade Plato for Politics

    ‘Eating the Globe: The Diverse, Weird, and Queer Food Politics’ among courses flagged in Goldwater Institute report.
  • They Keep Losing and Keep Trying Anyway
    May 7, 2026

    They Keep Losing and Keep Trying Anyway

    California lawmakers push ACA 7 to revive racial preferences that voters have repeatedly rejected.
  • Will the California Legislature Ever Stop Trying to Overturn Proposition 209?
    May 4, 2026

    Will the California Legislature Ever Stop Trying to Overturn Proposition 209?

    The effort seems doomed, but state legislators aren’t abandoning identity politics anytime soon.
  • Students Don’t Need Teachers Who Look Like Them
    April 29, 2026

    Students Don’t Need Teachers Who Look Like Them

    Research on racial matching shows little evidence of academic benefit.

Foreign Students →

  • Universities Push Sanctuary Campus Agenda for Illegal Immigrants
    January 28, 2026

    Universities Push Sanctuary Campus Agenda for Illegal Immigrants

    Illegal migrant enrollment helps universities meet demographic thresholds associated with preferential public funding.
  • What the New International Enrollment Drop Really Shows
    December 17, 2025

    What the New International Enrollment Drop Really Shows

  • Chinese University of Michigan Researcher Deported for Biopathogen Smuggling
    December 9, 2025

    Chinese University of Michigan Researcher Deported for Biopathogen Smuggling

  • Trump’s Social Media Vetting Faces Free Speech Backlash. But Some Foreign Students Agree with Him.
    November 3, 2025

    Trump’s Social Media Vetting Faces Free Speech Backlash. But Some Foreign Students Agree with Him.

Sciences →

  • VICTORY: Astronomer Wins Six Figures in Retaliation Case After Opposing DEI
    May 13, 2026

    VICTORY: Astronomer Wins Six Figures in Retaliation Case After Opposing DEI

    ‘I hope this result will discourage retaliation against future whistleblowers.’
  • Trump Shakes Up the National Science Board
    April 28, 2026

    Trump Shakes Up the National Science Board

    Trump’s termination of all 24 NSB members is less an attack on science than a break from its politicization.
  • Start Measuring Results
    April 24, 2026

    Start Measuring Results

    The Institute of Education Sciences should prioritize return on investment, student achievement, and statistically literate leadership.
  • Sometimes Science Needs A Brilliant Bastard
    April 23, 2026

    Sometimes Science Needs A Brilliant Bastard

    Difficult personalities often advance research, but today’s universities drive them out.

Workforce Pipeline →

  • What’s Feeding the ‘Graduate Unemployment Crisis’?
    May 14, 2026

    What’s Feeding the ‘Graduate Unemployment Crisis’?

    A mix of economic, educational, and corporate failures is making it difficult for young Americans to enter the workforce.
  • A White-Collar Trade School?
    January 29, 2026

    A White-Collar Trade School?

    A view that college should prepare students for immediate employment is now mainstream across America.
  • Is College Dead—or Just Changing?
    January 28, 2026

    Is College Dead—or Just Changing?

    An ed-tech executive argues higher education must adapt to AI as students and institutions prioritize job-market returns.
  • A Market Test
    January 21, 2026

    A Market Test

    Degrees that don’t deliver face a federal cutoff—just as the job market grows less forgiving.

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